The L.A.-based nonprofit created the initiative in response to the homogeneous and “plastic” stock photos currently available. The goal is to feature “people of color, women, genderqueer, and disabled folks of all ages and body types, in a variety of settings and narratives.” Read more at Hyperallergic.

Front-Page Femmes

The New York Timesprofiles Denise Murrell, businesswoman turned curator, who is championing art’s black models by telling their stories and contextualizing their presence.

Louise Bourgeois’s first large-scale Spider sculpture leaves its home at the Museum of Modern Art in São Paulo to begin a multi-city tour around Brazil.

Buzzfeed interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey on her new collection, her time as U.S. poet laureate, and history—both personal and political—as a driving force in her work.

Shows We Want to See

A new exhibition in Moscow explores Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s connections to Russia. Viva La Vida: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera includes Rivera’s mural Glorious Victory, which sat in storage for 50 years before being rediscovered a decade ago. A photo of Kahlo’s largest painting, The Wounded Table, is also included—the real piece has been missing since 1955 and the show’s curator is in search of it.

At the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, Anne Brigman: A Visionary in Modern Photography rediscovers the work of the first woman in America to take nude self-portraits. Brigman’s ethereal photographs, most all taken outdoors, “prefigured much of the feminist art that would come decades later—in their fearless depictions of the body, expressed as rebellious freedom rather than submission.”

—Alicia Gregory is the assistant editor at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.